Developing the idea infrastructure

I'm so disappointed anytime I hear the IT experts talk about government "stovepipes."

Oh sure, government has its problems. It's the same culture where process is king, where devotion to rules have replaced devotion to the principles the rules (used to) represent, and where people are encouraged to keep their heads -- and their hopes -- low. Government is so slow to change even the metaphors reference the industrial age. It gets kinda discouraging.

Maybe we could talk about the problem differently.

Via Culture & Context, Harvard Business Review suggests that we manage for creativity instead.To quote the article, "...Creative capital is not just a colllection of individuals' ideas, but a product of interaction."

I like that a lot because it goes to the whole issue of information
technology. Your observations, insight and contributions combined with
my observations, insight and contributions might yield a better
solution. Throw in a few hundred thousand networked people and state
government could be changed for the better.